Playing F.E.A.R for the 1st time and in glorious 3440x1440p!

heartburnron · 21 May 2016 at 20:28

Just completed Extraction Point - what a brilliant expansion!! Not so much story-wise compared to the first one but more intense combat and my god the scares!! So well done! Love it! Is this the most perfect game ever? It really is the kind of game you never tire playing. I want more! Oh wait - I still have Perseus Mandate, F.E.A.R 2 and F.E.A.R 3 to play. Happy days!

Aside from the Resident Evil games which are decent (ok I know 6 was a bit wide of the mark), hasn't anyone else made something similar to this? With the right blend of shooter and horror? What about The Evil Within - is it worth a look? I've played Outlast and I'm currently playing Alien Isolation which are right up there in terms of intense scares but it's almost too intense for me when all I can do is run and hide. I want the best of both worlds - a mean MFer but frightened too...

heartburnron · 21 May 2016 at 23:19

markoboyo11 said:
I really liked the evil whinin, well worth a play and can get it cheap now too.

Thank you. I will check that out.

heartburnron · 21 May 2016 at 23:21

arc@css said:
A very old title that's a shooter with a horror theme is 'The Suffering'. If you can get past the dated visuals there's a creepy game there to be had.

Oh really? Sweet. Old games are great to play if you can put yourself back in the place you would have been. I will check that out also. :cool:

heartburnron · 22 May 2016 at 20:12

TheVoice said:
Dead Space. Incredible atmosphere in that game. The sequels weren't that great (DS3 is rubbish) but the first one is excellent.

I played and enjoyed Dead Space 2 but not the first. I'll check it out thanks.

heartburnron · 7 Jun 2016 at 15:32

Finished Perseus Mandate last night and started F.E.A.R 2. Mandate didn't scare me so much as EP but some cool new weapons and enjoyed playing through it.

So on to F.E.A.R 2 - first impressions were WOW it looks stunning, some cool early scares, I like the feel of the new weapons and it does feel like a F.E.A.R game. Negative would be it seems like the AI has been dumbed down a bit and it's a bit less challenging. I've only played a couple of hours but I have increased the difficulty up to hard as I was never losing any health, only armour damage. I kinda miss the quick save option too - if only so I can stop playing when I want instead of having to keep going to the next save point. Really looking forward to playing through the rest of it though...

For anyone thinking about playing this again on a 21:9 ultrawide montior - the game will automatically detect your resolution however you have to switch 'widescreen' to NO in the video options menu to remove those black borders - and doesn't it just look lovely...

heartburnron · 7 Jun 2016 at 22:07

Ok so I spoke too soon - starting to die quite frequently now on the hard setting. I guess the game was just breaking in the combat gently. Going to stick with it for now. Class game.

heartburnron · 7 Jun 2016 at 22:42

arc@css said:
The DLC for Fear 2 is worth playing as well.

Oh. Let me just check that...

...Sweet! It says it's already in my library when I went to the steam page for it so it must be included in my version.

heartburnron · 22 Jun 2016 at 22:41

Just completed F.E.A.R 2. Great game, really enjoyed it. Who'd have thought Alma would turn out to be quite not when she's not in her withered form!! lol.

I have a problem just now though. I can't find where or how to launch the Reborn DLC - it says on the store page it's in my library but it's not listed in my installed games nor can I find it in my steam apps folder. Anyone had this problem?

heartburnron · 24 Jun 2016 at 16:01

arc@css said:
It's a very long time since I've played it, but I 'think' you need to start a new game, then the DLC should become available (doing this might wipe your saves for the main game, btw).

You were right. Thank you!